Sunday, January 20, 2008

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I think that the concept of billions of years is tough for most people to grasp.

A generational or epochal model is a little less mindboggling, in scope if not in scale.

Carl Sagan's "Calendar" model of time gives a good idea of that mindboggling scale.

If we use a calendar to represent all time from the initiation of the universe (a horribly mis-termed "big bang" - I hate that term as it implies an explosion. There was NO explosion. The "Great Expansion" would be more accurate.) to now, ALL of human history occurs in the last few minutes before midnight on December 31. For the entire YEAR of the calendar, humanity doesn't even exist, with our earliest simian ancestors arising sometime on December 29 or 30th.

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